John Wieners (1934–2002)
Auteur de Selected Poems: 1958-1984
A propos de l'auteur
John Wieners graduated from Boston College with an A.B. in English, in 1954. He spent 1955-1956 at Charles Olson's experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, studying writing with Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. Wieners then journeyed to San Francisco where he published his first afficher plus book, "Hotel Wentley Poems" in 1958, at the age of twenty-four. Wieners returned to Boston in 1959 to be institutionalized, in part because of drug abuse. In 1961 he moved to New York City with the help of a grant from Allen Ginsberg's Poetry Foundation. He worked as an assistant bookkeeper at the Eighth Street Bookshop for a year in '63. Wieners went back to Boston in 1963 and worked as a subscriptions editor for Jordan Marsh department stores until 1965. Olson, a long time friend, invited Wieners to enroll in the graduate program at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, which is where he stayed until 1967. In the spring of 1969 Wieners was again institutionalized, resulting in "The Asylum Poems (For my Father)," published later that year. In the early 1970s, despite brief periods of institutionalization, Wieners taught a course entitled "Verse in the U.S. Since 1955" at the Beacon Hill Free School in Boston. He was also involved in the antiwar movement, crusaded against racism, and campaigned for the rights of women and homosexuals. In 1975 Wieners published "Behind the State Capital, or Cincinnati Pike," a book of letters, memoirs, and brief lyric poems. In 1986 he produced a retrospective collection, "Selected Poems, 1958-1984" with a forward written by Allen Ginsberg. In 1996 he appeared with Ed Sanders at Stone Soup in Boston for what would have been Jack Kerouac's 76th birthday celebration. Also in 1996, The Sun and Moon Press released an edited and previously unpublished diary and journal by Wieners documenting his life in San Francisco around the time of The Hotel Wentley Poems. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de John Wieners
The Journal of John Wieners Is to Be Called 707 Scott Street for Billie Holiday, 1959 (Sun and Moon Classics) (1996) 18 exemplaires
Unhired: [poems] 4 exemplaires
Kidnap Notes Next 4 exemplaires
Poetry and the Social 2 exemplaires
Larders 2 exemplaires
Home-Duty 2 exemplaires
Idyll 2 exemplaires
After dinner on Pinckney street 1 exemplaire
Stone Soup Poetry (Issue #15) 1 exemplaire
Measure 2. 1 exemplaire
Measure 3 1 exemplaire
stone soup poetry no. 6 1 exemplaire
Chinoiserie 1 exemplaire
Poesie dell'albergo Wentley 1 exemplaire
Yonnie 1 exemplaire
Reading in Bed 1 exemplaire
L'Abysse 1 exemplaire
stone soup poetry, no. 7 — Complier & Editor — 1 exemplaire
Poems 1 exemplaire
An interview 1 exemplaire
Playboy 1 exemplaire
Bare foot 1 exemplaire
Au naturel 1 exemplaire
God is the Organ of Novelty 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Fire Exit, April, foldout issue, cover by Philip Guston — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Niagara Frontier Review, Spring-Summer 1965 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Fire Exit 3 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Niagara Frontier Review, Spring 1966 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Wieners, John Joseph
- Date de naissance
- 1934-01-06
- Date de décès
- 2002-03-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Milton, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Études
- Boston College
Jesuit College
Black Mountain College - Professions
- poet
magazine salesman
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 53
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 346
- Popularité
- #69,043
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- ISBN
- 29
- Favoris
- 2